What is this subreddit's opinion of GameTrailers?

Gametralers was my source of gaming news and reviews for a while, though I haven't visited them in the past year. I generally have a positive opinion of them, their reviews are pretty trustworthy.

What I enjoyed the most is their casual content such as retrospectives and top ten videos. They're a good mix of entertaining, informative and microanalysing video games.

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They put out good content, I can't complain. I particularly like their Timeline/Retrospective features.

Gametrailers used to be my goto place for videos, they had/have some pretty good stuff, their reviews used to be pretty agreeable (with the terrible reviews they did being comedy, i think their original STALKER one was pretty bad?).

These days though i barely go there. Ever since they swapped media players and the general navigation of the site its just a pain to use.

I'm all for sites like Gametrailers hyping up games, but like almost any official reviews site, I've stopped paying attention to them. I can get more information about a game watching someone stream it on Twitch for 30 minutes than I can from reading 10 reviews on any sites.

I've found game site reviews to be too skewed by hype and usually crippled by non-disclosure agreements. I'll go to sites like Gametrailers for entertainment purposes, but that's about it.

I love them at the beginning.

They had HD content, they had great reviews, they had things like ScrewAttack and AngryVideoGame Nerd.

Then around the time they changed the site layout is pretty much the time I totally quit them. The E3 and so on shows that I've seen all looked so fucking Doritos/Mountain Dew it was horrid.

So I can't really tell I don't visit them anymore as much as I used to.

I really liked most of the video series they did such as Pop Fiction and their retrospectives, but man, I've seen some really stupid shit on there. This video kind of explains why I stopped visiting it.

I haven't been on there in years though, so it might be better off now.

I really enjoy the current state of GT. The videos they regularly put out (Pop Facts, Countdown, Mandatory Update, Bonus Round, Let's all go to the Trailers & Final Bosman) are all awesome. I've grown to really like the crew who works there as well. Brandon Jones has the best voice in game reviews and voiceovers, Bosman seems like one of the most genuine people I've ever seen in gaming, and the likes of Huber, Ian, & Ben are all great personalities to have. On top of that, I really enjoy Ben Moore and Bloodworth's reviews, and Just Played is a cool daily series.

All in all, is there room for improvement? Yea, but they've definitely become a lot more focused and done better ever since the Defy purchase. I really like what they put out, and think others should watch them as well.

(Realistically I come off as a bit of a fan boy in this post, but that's because I'm just that, a fan of GT)

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The Final Bosman is such an entertaining show. At first it doesn't seem like it should be good, but hearing Kyle Bosman rant about whatever the heck is bugging or exciting him that week is just so heartwarming.

I went there to watch game trailers, and they delivered on that. I never read anything there aside from simple news stories that you can find a million other places.

Now I just watch game trailers on YouTube.

It's probably my favourite gaming website, I wish there was more news shows though as GT time is great but is only once a week. And it's nice too hear people call out bullshit.

Mandatory update is also brilliant, but isn't exactly informative!

Their reviews seem fair and I rarely feel like something was over/underscored. Also 0 click bait articles as it's all videos, separates it from most other gaming websites.

Overall I give GT a 7.8/10

They're my go-to source for video reviews. They're well done and I've never heard anything shady about their ethics.

The site seems like it hasn't been releasing as much interesting content since it was sold and a bunch of the staff were laid off, so I don't visit as much as I used to. I wouldn't be that surprised if it suddenly closed one day, or just slowly dropped in quality until it became irrelevant.

It used to be the shit back in the day with a lot of original content. But since the departure of some of their best talent and poor website/player, i just don't care about it anymore.

Kyle Bosman is one of my favorite gaming "personalities". His show and the stuff he does are great. DaMiani does the retrospective and pop fiction stuff and he's awesome too. The rest of the main crew is pretty cool. Its probably my number two site for gaming content after GiantBomb.

I really enjoy their reviews. Lengthy, in depth, and the guy doing the voiceovers has one beautiful voice. I don't watch much else from them but I always check out what they have to say about a game before I buy it myself.

I like it a lot. I really wish they would keep doing the timeline series. The first 2 videos of them were fantastic with amazing visuals and awesome information.

Mandatory update has also stolen my heart this past year. It's something I look forward to each Saturday morning.

Personally I love the site. They have some great shows from Bonus Round(the newest CES episode is great) to Pop Fiction, and I genuinely enjoy their reviews. Even if I don't always agree with their opinion they generally do a good job of backing them up. Although, I feel like they've been slowing down with their reviews; I don't feel like they are as prompt as other sites anymore and it seems games on a smaller radar don't even get a review half the time.

Still, it's a good site overall and more than Youtube, I try to make it my first stop when checking out a new game.

I don't care for them, but mainly because I really don't care for video reviews and let's plays in general. I speed read and it's really frustrating to me that when I want to find reviews about games, most of my friends and students recommend watching 15-30 minute videos. I'd much rather read a 500-1500 word article instead.

I used to go there all the time until their video player changed. Now I just wish they hosted all of their content videos on Youtube, because as it stands at the moment, I can't watch a single bloody one on the heap of junk they use on their website.

I think they are very solid. Granted I ignore about 90% of the content they put out, but I do like their reviews, some of their special retrospective videos and I'll watch some of their top5, 10, whatever stuff.

I also use their reviews more as "interesting things that came out on platforms I don't really pay attention to" (particularly DS) rather than buying recommendations.

Gametrailers is my #1 source for video game reviews. If they review a game good (>8) while others smashing it, I'm considering buying it.

I used to visit GT daily but since Marcus Beer and the EpixBattleAxe podcast are gone I didn't feel the need to go there as much as before, especially since their stupid video player appears totally buggy for me since over a year now. I just subscribed to a few more YT channels and go to Kotaku, GiantBomb and Polygon these days. I used to visit Joystiq too but they were always a bit late with their news. r/gamernews is my usually my first go-to place tho but the subs needs more quality content on a daily basis.

Before Youtube supported 1080p, GameTrailers had a very valuable niche

Now, though, they're gonna need to emphasize their added value (such as reviews).

you are now reading this in the voice of the Gametrailers guy

If IGN feels like it has great resources and sucks at putting them to use, Gametrailers feels the opposite way: they would benefit from a better website, and more content.

FINAL TALLY:

Content: 8.0

Website: 4.0

How they review: 7.0

E3 coverage: 8.0

Other content (Retrospectives): 9.0

Overall: 8.5/10

Edit: Got a survey for the site when clicking a link to it. I criticized the fact that some of their older content was not available in any form except through searches, like the retrospectives (no, they are not on the GT Archives section of the "GT Shows"). I never go to complete the survey because I didn't know ANY of the new GT Shows, but the survey wouldn't let me continue without telling it that I did know. That speaks volumes of what I mean by GT's website being just not that great

I think they've slowed down a bit after they got taken over by Defy Media.

Apparently a lot of staff was let go, they stopped doing videos with Michael Pachter, and they still haven't finished the Diablo retrospective, and at this point they might not ever as that kind of production undoubtedly is too complicated and long term when you can just put two goofballs in front of a camera instead and get 2/3rds of the view for 1% of the time and price.

Most of the videos I watch on GT are screwattack and popfiction ones. I find them pretty entertaining.

I love(d) trailer academy, and Lets All go to the Trailers. But both seemed to have died. Which is very very sad.

I don't know what happened with this site. I used to visit all the time but I guess with the advent of YouTube there was less and less reason to visit for the namesake of the website. I did like what they were trying to do, though WikiCheats fell through and the community systems changed so much that I lost any reason to check it out ever again.

Their unique video content like Retrospective and Pop Fiction are great though. Also the voices they have for their videos are absolutely amazing.

I only used them for the first couple years they were out, but it felt like it was aimed at the call of d00ter bro audience. I remember them having a general taste of disgust for JRPGs and just kinda stopped going there.

i used to watch every video features they produced multiple time when they 1st started. not anymore now.

All i really use this site for anymore is watching The Final Bosman. He just seems sort of awkwardly witty and usually brings up subjects that are not related as much to games as they are related to the industry in general. Also seems like a relatable person, when he talks about subjects.

There was a lot of unique video content.

But now that youtube and lets play have exploded its not that big of a deal anymore.

If you agree have similar tastes to a reviewer of theirs then that's excellent you shouldn't have to seek approval for that.

I used to go to the site a lot for pach attack, marcus beers show and a few others like popfiction before it ran out of ideas. When they cut a lot of their people and put kyle boss man on everything I kinda got turned off. I really liked the guy at first but it was too much.

I used to use gametrailers for video reviews, however there seems to be this disgusting trend where they would use scenes from later points in the game effectively spoiling it.

One example that comes to mind is their review on walking dead 400 days.

But yea, now I hate watching their videos and will only watch it after I finish a game.

The site's reviews are good, often fair. I really like The Final Bosman...its a nice show, funny and informative.

A place to go if you want games spoiled. They talked about that its usually the interns managing the visuals you see for previews/reviews and they weren't backing down after criticism of their spoiler culture. This is something that's been going back and forth for years. I tried to give them another shot by looking up a review of a Vita game on their website, it took me to its listing -- then no review and the only video content were major game ending spoilers submitted by users.

While I can't outright blame them entirely, it's become increasingly obvious whenever I visit GameTrailers I end up with spoilers. I use a Chrome extension for YouTube that disables recommended videos and thumbnails at the end of a video, all for the sake of avoiding unintentional spoilers. I would not recommend anyone to look up game videos there, as a source for reviews, I have not relied on them since their years of circlejerking Call of Duty for GOTY.

Haven't watched them in a long while. If it's not Xbox or Playstation they act like it doesn't exist. Much better gaming sites around.

Their new player is shit and so is their new site layout. Sad since the site has great content and j used to visit it from almost the beginning ( saw their first preview-pariah)

The only reason I don't visit that site any more is because of the load times. Even YouTube is faster.

I enjoy plenty of their videos today, especially The Final Bossman. Their reviews leave plenty to be desired. Not only are they shorter now, more often than not their final score doesn't reflect what the announcer or editor said.

I started watching gametrailers for screwattack. But since I've stayed for their excellent retrospectives and well produced reviews. Though I've always felt that their reviews were too lenient and often didn't provide enough actual critique of the game. I figured it was because they were largely depend on the publishers seeing as they almost exclusively produced or reproduced video content and therefor wanted to play nice.

So with that perspective, them making a video like 10 games that might suck surprised me a bit. In short, I like them.

I'm surprised they're still going. Before Youtube became big, they were THE go-to place for high resolution trailers and gameplay footage, and user submitted content like machinimas, animations, and all the stuff that's now on Youtube.

Nowadays, not so much. A good site that got shoved out of the market by a far bigger company, like every other pre-youtube site.

I really enjoy their edited content. They have very good writers and voiceovers, plus they do their research and seem to dig into every game mode (and a lot more for Pop Fiction and Retrospectives). The actual video editing is excellent and they do a better job than anyone I've seen of picking clips to match what's being said (and often they pick quips from a game to reinforce a point in a genuinely funny manner). Their reviews are consistently watchable and well-thought-out.

However I find their unedited content nearly unwatchable. Even for the personalities I like (Daniel Blood worth and Kyle Bosman come to mind), I don't want to listen to them ramble on haphazardly for 45 minutes. In the last year or so, more and more of the front-page content has consisted of staff sitting and casually chatting about games, and nearly every time I watch it feels sloppy and disorganized. I'm left disappointed because they don't edit out the countless "ums" and "uhs" and redundant statements. It seems so amateur compared to the high-quality better-prepared videos. Editing is their strong suit so it's sad when they omit it.

It has been my go to site for reviews for several years now, for one single reason. The review voice guy. Gametrailers is my by far visited game related site (not counting game related subreddits) and its all thanks to reviewguys voice.

I really like their reviews, they seem to be really honest about their work. Sadly they have very little amount of review videos

The review they done on AW had a microsoft plug but beside that, its a pretty good website for a 5 minute review.

I love them. I feel their reviews are pretty good and their content is well done. I use them before I get a game.

Gametrailers is legit. I have seen them trash a game in their review, while their website was plastered with ads for the game in banner ads and background images. I certainly trust them more than ign or gamespot. their original content is good and their content reflects the love their staff has for video games.

GameTrailers is a very nice site that I've stopped visiting for some reason. I've never been very involved with the community or anything, but I have always enjoyed their video reviews (nice to see their points actually shown!), even if I don't always agree with them.

Their original stuff like The Final Bosman and Timeline are just really good, too. Final Bosman is like a bite-sized video podcast, and Timeline just comes off as pure passion work. Pop Fiction was a really neat little trivia piece for a while too, but it eventually kind of felt like it was grabbing at straws after a few videos for me. Bonus Round is one of the best industry-side segments I think I see in gaming, even if a lot of controversy can spawn from industry-insider viewpoints when they reach the consumer masses.

In any case, can't figure out the exact reason I barely ever go to the site anymore. I never saw a piece of content that outright put me off or anything, I just kind of tapered off in interest. Might have to fix that soon.

I used to visit the site everyday until late 2012. Every week I would listen to the invisible wall podcast mainly due to Marcus Beer. Being a pc gamer I could relate to him, since the whole site was kinda focused on console mainly. Now I'll just lurk on reddit and twitter. All game companies upload their content to YouTube now.

I don't really understand why there is such large concern with a subreddit "consensus" on a site/game/movie (not just specifically your question, but the seeming approval seeking trend). Like what you like. Don't like what you don't. I'm not saying don't listen to anyone else, but if you feel like the content is good and from your own research can't really find anything wrong with them, go ahead and like them.

I don't go for the reviews or news, I go for the staff, I really enjoy lets all go to the trailers and the final bosman. They also have a crazy fun and genuine twitch live stream!

I really liked Pachter's show. Most vlogs are the same old shit over and over. He actually had interesting insights on the economics of the industry, which is a topic rarely covered on other sites. I stopped checking the site regularly when he left. I'll occasionally watch Bonus Round if it's an interesting topic, but the panel format is very dry. Would be nice if they tackled more controversial topics.

Can't say I've enjoyed much of their content after the mass exodus of the old staff happened. I'm probably in the minority, but I actually preferred Shane Satterfield's contrary-for-the-sake-of-being-an-asshole approach over Kyle Bosman's contrary-for-the-sake-of-being-a-self-deprecating-hipster.

Personally, I love their stuff. Their reviews are spot on, very informative, deep and interesting. They do great videos and have a huge amount of content.

I think Gametrailers does the best reviews of the major gaming sites. They don't tend to give in to hype or exaggerate the quality of games.

I think they are the most underrated games site out there. Their original content like pop-fiction is stellar and I love their broadcaster voice guy.

I still think they have the best reviews in the industry. They also hit a major homerun with pop fiction.

And, as the front page indicated today, their countdowns are amazing generally and you can lose hours watching all of them

They do a great job of showing the personalities behind the curtain. I feel like I have a good idea of who the reviewers are, and I trust their opinions more as a result. If I feel the need to hear a review of a game, Gametrailers is the first place I usually go. They are also good at interacting with their community.

They're alright.

Pop Fiction and some of their retrospectives are pretty good, but I can't say I'm a fan of their reviews. They often feel like the reviewer didn't play all of the game or left huge bits out.

GameTrailers has been on a downward spiral since Shane Satterfield left and Invisible Walls finished. Defy Media firing half the GT staff hasn't helped, Final Bosmon is a good watch so theirs some hope.

Only reliable E3 stream for me that is ACTUALLY HD.
And I sometimes read stuff that get linked by them on Reddit.

I dislike it. I don't loathe it, but I dislike the robotic, monotone voice of the dude who reads from the paper into the video clip, and I also almost always think the opinions of that dude in the video are irrelevant, worthless, poorly argued, and in general disagreeable. I don't like the commentary or views expressed in video reviews posted on gametrailers.com.

However, it's a fine site for gameplay videos, on par with youtube in some ways. And while I dislike it in general, I don't think it terrible. It's just "meh."

But gametrailers.com beats giantbomb any day. I actually loathe giantbomb on average, compared to the "meh" of gametrailers. If I want to watch something where I will enjoy almost every video commentary, I have to watch totalbiscuit or similar stuff. I like how on-point and relatively serious totalbiscuit is. And totalbiscuit is not robotic or monotone and his opinions are often based on something more than pure air.

I like it. I don't go on it everyday, but I'll pop in once and a while. I use it as one of my go-to sites for looking at the reviews for a game I'm interested in. I would watch Pac Attack a lot, as well. He makes sense most of the time and his voice is pretty calming.

I really like their work. Have you seen their FFXI video?

http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/a0tpjd/gt-retrospectives-final-fantasy-retrospective--part-viii

Seriously, check it out.

I used to visit gametrailers when they had a marketplace you could buy things from with currency accumulated through watching videos. I still wear a knit hat with the GT logo and name on it that I got from the site.

Then they started doing auctions instead, and everything became overpriced so I lost interest.

Giantbomb. Giantbomb killed everything else video game culture related for me except for r/Games. i started watching gianbomb content around E3 a few years ago (sadly right before Ryan Davis passed away). after that E3 i have never looked back and have ascended into the heavens with all the other premium subscribing duders. i know that 2014 wasnt the best year for giantbomb because of some of the staff's positions on the event we do not speak of but there are very few people in the gaming culture that have the respect and trust that they have in the "gaming" world. the content that they produce suits me perfectly. their approach to big events, like live streaming themselves watching the live stream of events like E3 or the ps4/xboxone event i found to be HILARIOU And their newest member of the team (dan the man) is quickly and shockingly becoming my favorite member to watch/listen to.

I know not everyone loves giantbomb or is interested in the type of content they make but if you are unfamiliar with them, i strongly suggest you visit their site and check out some podcasts and streaming video events they have done.

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